presumptuously
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We boycott restaurants that automatically add a 20% gratuity and presumptuously suggest we tip still more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Set to be released Nov. 11 by Universal Pictures, “The Fabelmans” is already being hailed by many, maybe a bit presumptuously, as Spielberg’s most personal film — his “Fanny and Alexander,” his “Amarcord.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
The painting in question is quite presumptuously entitled “The Visionary.”
From Salon ● May 7, 2017
Similarly, what’s disheartening about familiar methods employed in familiar ways is the sense of routine, the overconfidence that arises from directors doing what they seem, presumptuously, to know how to do.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 10, 2017
And they will not act presumptuously against his holy statutes and his righteous judgment and his faithful testimonies.
From The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect by George Foot Moore
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